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Pte. William Clark
British Army 1st Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.31st Aug 1914)
William Clark was aged 24 when he died on 31st August 1914 whilst serving with the 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry in India. He was born and lived in Jarrow and enlisted in Newcastle. William Clark age 20 a Clerk at Steelworks is recorded as living with his widowed mother Mary Ann Clark and family at 48 Northbourne Road, Jarrow on the 1911 census. He was the son of Mary Ann Clark (nee Watson) and late William Clark of Jarrow.
William is remembered on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate) and is buried in Nowshera Military Cemetery.